Hopefully, Akamatsu-sensei and other manga-ka will have an English version of the site for out of print manga titles in the west. However, I’m looking at a bigger picture here. Granted, unless you can read Japanese, this won’t help you much. Better still, there will be NO DRM (Digital Rights Management) crap to deal with! How freaking cool is that? I loathe DRM with a passion and it shows common sense on the part of Akamatsu-sensei to not upload files burdened with this hideousness. The idea is simple and brilliant - take manga titles that are now out of print, obtain permission from the manga-ka to upload them to the website they’ve established as PDF files, then share them with the world FOR FREE! Ad revenue will pay for the upkeep costs of the site and pay the manga-ka too. (You can check out Akamatsu-sensei’s blog for the info and look for the “ ★重要なお知らせ” posting.) So when I hear that on the 17th, Akamatsu-sensei has a new initiative for legal publication of out of print manga in Japan, I was pretty excited. Negima!’s Akamatsu-sensei Leads The Way with Legal Japanese Online Manga Publishingįor a long time now, I’ve been wanting to see more inroads to legal, online publication of manga, both in the U.S.
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